NBA training camps have tipped off this week and everybody’s hit the ground running. It’s been a great off-season with boyz moving around the league and the hype for the season starting is beyond NUTS!!! LeBron is a Laker, Melo is lyin’ to everyone about being cool with coming off of the bench and playing a smaller role in Houston. Kawhi is laughing like a robot in Toronto!!! It’s like the old NBA commercial that said, “I love this Game!!! It’s Fantastic!!”
With all of that excitement we run up to Minnesota and find the Timberwolves begging Jimmy Butler to show up and play. This dun waits until training camp is about to start to tell folks that the doesn’t want to play in any of the reindeer games. He’s trying to force a trade out of there.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I’ve got no problem with a cat wanting to be traded. My problem is with him waiting until training camp was about to start to cause this disruption. What was he doing all summer? That’s that foolishness I’m talking about bruh.
No respect for the rest of the team or the organization. “It’s all about him! Give ME what I want. I don’t care about winning or losing. I just want to do what I want to do just because.” Now those aren’t direct quotes those are just real talk quotes.
Just like the foolishness that Le’Veon Bell is on over in Pittsburgh. He’d rather give away $853K per week than to show up for work. They offered the dun $14.6 million on a franchise tag this season and he turned it down but is giving away darn near $900K per week to prove a point. It makes no sense.
These young cats don’t even think about what real life is or what it’s supposed to look like. In the Sports Illustrated article “How (and Why) Pro Athletes Go Broke” in March of 2009 it’s specifically states that “By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.” It goes on to say, “Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke.”
Why? Because boyz don’t get it and they make silly, reckless and selfish decisions along the way because the money comes so early in their lives that they think that it’ll always be there. So I’m not surprised that Jimmy Butler isn’t being very unprofessional at this point. It’s par for the course for many of these cats. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.